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Embedded Computation Architectures for Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

This paper addresses the challenge of embedded computing resources required by future autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Based on an analysis of the required onboard functions that will lead to higher levels of …

The state of the art and operational scenarios for urban air mobility with unmanned aircraft

ABSTRACT A state-of-the-art review of all the developments, standards and regulations associated with the use of major unmanned aircraft systems under development is presented.

Assuring Learning-Enabled Components in Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Aviation has a remarkable safety record ensured by strict processes, rules, certifications, and regulations, in which formal methods have played a role in large companies developing commercial aerospace vehicles and relat…

Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Simulation of Drone Delivery Models in 2030 Japan

An unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) system to support flights beyond visual line-of-sight is considered necessary for the promotion of commercial drone use.

Fast Collision Detection for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Urban Airspace

With the dramatic development of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), how to ensure sUAS safety operation has been a growing concern.

CORRIDRONE: Corridors for Drones, An Adaptive On-Demand Multi-Lane Design and Testbed

In this article, a novel drone skyway framework called CORRIDRONE is proposed. As the name suggests, this represents virtual air corridors for point-to-point safe passage of multiple drones.

Empirical study of airport geofencing for unmanned aircraft operation based on flight track distribution

Abstract With the increasing activities of unmanned aircraft (UA) near airports, severe challenges have emerged regarding airport safety management.

A Comparison of Rule-Based and Machine Learning Models for Classification of Human Factors Aviation Safety Event Reports

There is growing interest in the study and practice of applying data science (DS) and machine learning (ML) to automate decision making in safety-critical industries.

A Performance-Based Airspace Model for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management

Recent evolutions of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) concept are driving the introduction of new airspace structures and classifications, which must be suitable for low-altitude airspace and …

Spatial Disorientation Impact on the Precise Approach in Simulated Flight.

BACKGROUND: The risks posed by flight illusions impacting pilot spatial orientation have been determined as a safety concern from numerous past aviation accident investigations.

Procedures for the Integration of Drones into the Airspace Based on U-Space Services

A safe integration of drones into the airspace is fundamental to unblock the potential of drone applications. U-space is the drone traffic management solution for Europe, intended to handle a large number of drones in th…

Civil unmanned aircraft system operation in national airspace: A survey from Air Navigation Service Provider perspective

Abstract Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) have advanced technologically and surged exponentially over recent years. Currently, due to safety concerns, most civil operations of UAS are conducted in low-level uncontrolled …

Cybersecurity of the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)

In recent years, UASs have become more and more popular. There are many reasons for this; one of the most popular is the enhancement of drones’ functionalities and improvement in battery life, stabilization, navigation, …

Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System(s) (C-UAS): State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Trends

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or unmanned aerial vehicles, often referred to as drones, have been experiencing healthy growth in the United States and around the world.

Analysis of Human Factors Relationship in Hazardous Chemical Storage Accidents

Human factors are important causes of hazardous chemical storage accidents, and clarifying the relationship between human factors can help to identify the logical chain between unsafe behaviors and influential factors in…

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for Bridge Inspection Safety

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are an excellent tool to remove bridge inspection workers from potential harm. Previous research has documented that UAS for bridge inspection is a strategic priority of a state’s Departme…

COMPUTED TORQUE CONTROL FOR A SPATIAL DISORIENTATION TRAINER

A development of a robot control system is a highly complex task due to nonlinear dynamic coupling between the robot links. Advanced robot control strategies often entail difficulties in implementation, and prospective b…

A Classification Method for Unrecognized Spatial Disorientation Based on Perceptual Process

Spatial disorientation (SD) is the pilot’s wrong judgment of flight altitude, position, and motion in three-dimensional space during flight.

Transport safety and human factors in the era of automation: What can transport modes learn from each other?

One of the main aims of introducing automation in transport is to improve safety by reducing or eliminating human errors; it is often argued however that this may induce new types of errors.

UAS Conflict Resolution in Continuous Action Space Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Ensuring safety and providing obstacle conflict alerts to small unmanned aircraft is vital to their integration into civil airspace. There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many of them need exp…

Sum-of-Squares Flight Control Synthesis for Deep-Stall Recovery

Certification of inflight loss-of-control recovery is complicated by the highly nonlinear flight dynamics beyond stall. In lieu of extensive Monte Carlo simulations for flight control certification...

U-Space Concept of Operations: A Key Enabler for Opening Airspace to Emerging Low-Altitude Operations

Opening the sky to new classes of airspace user is a political and economic imperative for the European Union. Drone industries have a significant potential for economical growth according to the latest estimations.

Probabilistic Risk-Based Operational Safety Bound for Rotary-Wing Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management

A novel method to determine probabilistic operational safety bound for rotary-wing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management is proposed in this paper. The key idea is to combine a determi...

Using Digital and Physical Simulation to Focus on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Aviation Maintainability

Objective: This research aimed to evaluate the differences in the assessments made by three simulation tools used in a maintainability design office to perform human factor/ergonomics (HFE) analysis: digital human modeli…

Identification, Categorisation and Gaps of Safety Indicators for U-Space

Many civilian applications of commercial unmanned aircraft are being planned to operate in the years ahead. Several countries have developed their own framework to design the operation of unmanned aircraft and the differ…

Information Management to Mitigate Loss of Control Inflight Airline Accidents

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) and Manned Traffic near John Wayne Airport (KSNA) Spot Check of the SUAS Facility Map: Towards a New Paradigm for Drone Safety Near Airports

Using data from an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADSB) aggregator, a custom data-mining program was developed to identify all manned aircraft below 500′ AGL within 5 miles of the KSNA airport on six specifi…

Human Factors Analysis of Air Traffic Safety Based on HFACS-BN Model

Air traffic control (ATC) performance is important to ensure flight safety and the sustainability of aviation growth. To better evaluate the performance of ATC, this paper introduces the HFACS-BN model (HFACS: Human fact…

Modeling Human Factors Topics in Aviation Reports

This paper describes the development and new application of a text modeling process for identifying human factors topics, such as fatigue, workload, and distraction in aviation safety reports.

Using an Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone) to Conduct a Complex High Altitude Search and Rescue Operation: A Case Study

Unmanned aircraft systems, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or drones, are becoming increasingly common consumer products; their potential applications to search and rescue operations are becoming ever more apparen…

Challenges in Vehicle Safety and Occupant Protection for Autonomous electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) Vehicles

The burgeoning electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicle industry has generated a significant level of enthusiasm amongst aviation designers, manufacturers and researchers.

Safety and human factors for electronic flight bag usage in general aviation

Paper checklists are being replaced by software on a tablet computer, i.e., an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). We focus on what effects this can have on the human pilot and on safety and security.

Ground impact probability distribution for small unmanned aircraft in ballistic descent

Safety is a key factor in all aviation, and while years of development has made manned aviation relatively safe, the same has yet to happen for unmanned aircraft.

Flight Tests of Ranges and Latencies of a Threefold Redundant C2 Multi-Link Solution for Small Drones in VLL Airspace

Over the past years the UAV market has grown rapidly and will continue so. Several manufacturer offer UAVs, which differ in their size, equipment or performance.

Evaluation of an Unique Communication Interface System D2X for Uavs Intercommunicating with air and Ground UTM Users

Over the past years the UAV market has grown rapidly and will continue so. In order to design a future airspace management system for unmanned and manned airspace users, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in collaboration…

State of the art of unmanned aircraft transport systems in industry related to risks, vulnerabilities and improvement of safety

This paper discusses state of the art of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), drones (unmanned aerial vehicle -UAV's) and control infrastructure.

Spatial disorientation cue effects on gaze behaviour in pilots and non-pilots

Spatial disorientation (SD) poses a serious threat to flight safety. A pilot’s gaze behaviour that characterizes his/her visual perception and attention determines success in dealing with this phenomenon.

Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering for Unmanned Aircraft

This work presents the current certification practices in unmanned aviation in the context of autonomy and artificial intelligence and shows how the specific operation risk assessment might be used as an enabler for hard…

Total system error performance of drones for an unmanned PBN concept

Is the World Ready for Drones?

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) are revolutionizing the world. RPA, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or ‘drones’ present many new opportunities for a diverse range of industries and practi…

Optical Illusions and Spatial Disorientation in Aviation Pilots

To this knowledge, this is the first study to review exhaustively and describe the main factors involved in spatial disorientation and optical illusions affecting aviation pilots.

High risk occurrence chains in helicopter accidents

An approach to identify high-risk sequences of events (or occurrence chains) in General Aviation accidents using historical accident data is developed and recommended to improve the NTSB accident database and recording s…

Towards Autonomy and Safety for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The impact of new and upcoming regulations and standards for unmanned aircraft regarding a holistic approach to the assessment of risk and their impact on autonomy and safety will be discussed.

C-band digital aeronautical communication for unmanned aircraft systems

A Bayesian approach to system safety assessment and compliance assessment for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

This paper is the first to describe the application of Bayesian techniques to the field of Aviation system safety analysis and would bring aviation system safety practitioners in line with more contemporary (and well est…

Risk Informed Safety Case Framework for Unmanned Aircraft System Flight Software Certification

Air–Ground Channel Characterization for Unmanned Aircraft Systems—Part I: Methods, Measurements, and Models for Over-Water Settings

Markov Decision Process-Based Distributed Conflict Resolution for Drone Air Traffic Management

A massively distributed architecture used to implement the conflict avoidance algorithm on a practical scale in which simultaneous conflicts can be solved in parallel in tens of milliseconds is presented.

The Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Planning Problem in Controlled Airspace

This paper optimize the route planning of a drone mission that consists of departing from an airport, flying over a set of mission way points and coming back to the initial airport.

Simulation and modelling tools for quantitative safety assessments of unmanned aircraft systems and operations